Curiosity finds water in Mars soil

Curiosity finds water in Mars soil

Martian weather and soil conditions that NASA’s Curiosity rover has measured, together with a type of salt found in Martian soil, could put liquid brine in the soil at night. Perchlorate identified in Martian soil by the Curiosity mission, and previously by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander mission, has properties of absorbing water vapour from the atmosphere and lowering the freezing temperature of water.

Mystery of the Mars rock solved

Mystery of the Mars rock solved

Researchers have solved the mystery of the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, that was discovered on the Red Planet’s surface: it is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA’s Mars Exploration...
The Earth rises over Mars …

The Earth rises over Mars …

New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show Earth shining brighter than any star in the Martian night sky. The rover’s view of its original home planet even includes our moon, just below Earth. The distance between Earth and Mars when Curiosity took...
Curiosity finds water, signs of life

Curiosity finds water, signs of life

NASA’s Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars’ past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a little more than a year on the Red Planet, the mobile Mars Science Laboratory has determined the age...
Curiosity finds water on Mars

Curiosity finds water on Mars

The first scoop of soil analysed by the analytical suite in the belly of NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals that fine materials on the surface of the planet contain several percent water by weight. The results were published today in Science as one article in a...